Pharm Frog
Full Member
Why limit it to just this week?
There was no intent to limit. I just hadn't heard him spewing on and on about Austin and the wonderful D-F field and the massive crowds leading to a host spot until this week.
Why limit it to just this week?
My predictions:
National Seed (no order) /// Regional Host Pair
Oregon State /// Long Beach St
Stanford /// Arkansas (maybe flip with LBSU)
Texas Tech /// Virginia
LSU /// Clemson or FSU (maybe flip with UVA)
TCU /// Houston
Louisville /// Southern Miss
UNC /// Kentucky
Florida /// Wake Forest
Season ticket holders can request Regional tickets now by logging on to your gofrogs.com account. App is up. $45 per GA all-session and $60 per reserved all-session. Plus a $10 fee.
Deadline for season ticket holders is 5 pm Wednesday.
If you have GA and want reserved, you have to buy your GA. Then if there are reserved left, they'll be offered to the GA folks in priority points rank order.
My hunch....actually I don't care that much although I'd rather Dirtbag's scenario be right than mine.
Oregon State // Wake
Tech // Clemson
Frogs // Arkie
LSU // Houston
UNC // Southern Miss
Florida // FSU (just to piss off everyone in FL and especially so when they send last-in Miami to the Gainesville Region)
Stanford // LBSU
Louisville // Kentucky (just too good to pass up)
5 hosts from the #3 conference in the country. Last year the #3 conference got only three teams in the whole damn thing.
I'm thinking they're trying to avoid some repeats - which is why I don't have UH in Baton Rouge or FSU in Gainesville. Pretty sure Kentucky in Louisville was recently done, too.
#TCU17
When you have three or more #2 seeds and two host sites, it's gonna be tough to avoid those potential intra-conference super pairings when they insist on this regionalization crap.
They have plenty of options. I don't buy that. They shouldn't, and probably won't, pair both Big 12 NS with regionals where there Big 12 teams at #2 - it's no harder than there being 5 ACC hosts that can't be paired etc. With Tech, TCU, Ark, LSU, UH, So Miss all hosting, and 2-seeds needed out west, it's not hard to spread the 4-5 Big 12 1/2 seeds among more than 4 of the 16 regionals.
BASEBALL AMERICA PROJECTIONS
National Seed /// Regional Host Pair
#1 Oregon State /// Clemson
#2 North Carolina /// Southern Miss
#3 Florida /// Wake Forest
#4 Texas Tech /// Houston
#5 Louisville /// Kentucky
#6 LSU /// Florida State
#7 TCU /// Arkansas
#8 Stanford /// Long Beach State
Fort Worth Regional
(1) #7 TCU
(2) Auburn
(3) Dallas Baptist
(4) Radford
Fayetteville Regional
(1) Arkansas
(2) Oklahoma
(3) Miami
(4) Oral Roberts
Other Teams in the Field
Oklahoma - 2 seed at Arkansas
West Virginia - 2 seed at Clemson
Texas A&M - 3 seed at Clemson
Houston Regional - (1) Houston, (2) Texas, (3) Rice, (4) Texas Southern
Oklahoma State - 3 seed at Stanford
Baylor - 2 seed at Long Beach State
BYU - 3-seed at Oregon State: I point this out because BYU is supposedly refusing to play on Sunday, which puts the NCAA in the position of either saying too bad or screwing the other 3 teams by giving them 1 less day of rest than literally everyone else. So that will be interesting.
Of note: I don't think they'll have TCU and Tech as NS paired with Regionals where both 2-seeds are Big 12 teams. I just don't see it.